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The Ministry of Sports and Youth Welfare is a Ministry of the Government of Maharashtra. state. The Ministry is headed by a cabinet level Minister. Dattatray Vithoba Bharne is Current Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Government of Maharashtra.
Sports play an integral part of culture in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Cricket is the most popular spectator sport in the state. Other popular sports include kabaddi and kho kho, which are played in rural areas, and field hockey, badminton, and table tennis, which are more common in urban areas, schools, and colleges.
The Government of Maharashtra is the executive governing authority of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The government is led by the chief minister (currently Eknath Shinde since 30 June 2022) who selects all the other ministers.
The Department of Sports is a division of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports under Government of India created on 30 April 2008. They also helped in bringing the FIFA U-17 World cup to India. A huge part of it was played by the advisors to the Sports Ministry - Rahul Rana (Doon School) and Arjun Dewan (The Lawrence School). [16]
Shiv Chhatrapati Award (also known as Shiv Chhatrapati State Sports Award) is the highest prestigious sports award honoured annually to the players of Maharashtra by the Government of Maharashtra in India. [1] The Government of Maharashtra instituted in 1969–70 a scheme for giving the Shiv Chhatrapati State Awards to sportsmen and women.
Its name was changed to the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports during International Youth Year in 1985. [84] India has also hosted and co-hosted several international sporting events, including the 1987 , 1996 and 2011 Cricket World Cups , the 2003 Afro-Asian Games , the 2010 Hockey World Cup , and the 2010 Commonwealth Games .
Prominent sporting institutions in Pune include the Nehru Stadium, the Deccan Gymkhana, PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Maharashtra Cricket Association Cricket Stadium and Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The Nehru Stadium is the home ground of the Maharashtra cricket team, and has hosted many prominent cricket events, including one of the matches in ...
In 2020, Maharashtra passed a bill to establish a university named International Sports University, Maharashtra. [17] For this, Pune's Balewadi-based Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex will be upgraded to upcoming sports university. University will start functioning in 2021–22.